In place of Guerinus the Knights of St John elected Fra Bertrand de Comps
in 1244 in the city of Acre, in the time of Pope Innocent IV who convened
a General Council in Lyon in 1245 in the reign of St Louis. In August 1248,
this Grandmaster in Acre conducted a battle against the Turcomans, who had
laid waste the region around Antioch. Her received several fatal wound from
which he died.